Photobucket sent me an e-mail early this month (8th March) saying I have less than 75Mb of bandwidth left in my free Photobucket account. If you noticed, I’m externally calling all my images from Photobucket account. I got even more surprised when I found out that a free account actually comes with 10GB of free bandwidth and for the pass 7 days I’ve used up about 9925Mb; that’s about 1.5GB/day just for images. This is quite scary. I’m beginning to feel that I’m losing grip on the predictions of the resources, bandwidth, web spaces and everything my blog eats up.
Problem with bandwidth limit exceed
This is what you will see when Photobucket stops you from retrieving your images for external calling. If you happen to see this in my blog and wants to see the actually image, let me know (Gtalk, MSN, email, leave comment) the URL to that particular entry and I’ll bring them back manually.
Solution (temporarily)
Images becomes unaccessible when bandwidth limit exceed but they are still available for download and view if you login to your account. I did a quick download of frequent used images and manually upload them back to my web account, changed the pointing url from http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76/* back to http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/*
If such problem occurs you can try my temporarily solution and wait for the bandwidth reset next month or purchase a Photobucket Pro account for $25/year.
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Comments
Rexted March 12th, 2007
I think you have to pay US$ 25 since you have a great traffic here
Replymenghua March 12th, 2007
why not just put it in your webserver? get a package with higher bandwidth that will solve it… it will be a waste if those images can’t show up with this high traffic to your site.
Replymohdismail March 12th, 2007
yes…use your own server…it is better than pay for another company to host your e-mail…do it just like LiewCF…
Reply:)
LiewCF March 13th, 2007
now you see why i don’t use photo hosting services? :)
Replyahboon March 13th, 2007
I’ve got the same problem as you. One way is to reduce the picture size.
Another way is to find some FREE one with unlimited bandwidth, and somemore they PAY you for hosting pictures.
Please read from my previous post:
Replyhttp://ahsoon.net/2006/10/24/imagefly-free-image-hosting/
hongkiat March 13th, 2007
thanks for the feedbacks, guess i just underestimates the bandwidth usage. Boon, that sounds like a good idea. I’ll research more into it. Have you get pay before?
Replyahboon March 13th, 2007
Frankly, the convertion points is quite high. you need 135,000 unique views to get the mimimum $30 payout.
I started using it since October 2006, and just hit 180,000 point which converted to $40. I have submited the request of withdrawal and will need to wait for 14days.
Hope to give you some gooood news then.
ReplyChris April 3rd, 2007
You can just use the site http://www.uploadfile.info too. There’s no bandwidth cap.
-Chris
Replyhongkiat April 3rd, 2007
Thanks, but I’ll host them within my account from now.
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